134 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1906, 
BRASSOCATTLEYA x ORPHEUS. 
I Have been much interested in your note at p. 49 on Mr. Orpet’s 
Brassocattleya X Orpheus. Some little time ago I bought a plant of this 
hybrid in flower. I cannot say what sort of Trianz the parent was, but 
have always supposed that it was an ordinary Triane. Be that as it may, 
the result when I bought it was a flower of most ‘delicate colouring. Of 
course Brassavola glauca is not a pure white, but has a kind of underlying 
yellow or cream colour. This blended beautifully with the pink of the 
Trianze, and produced all kinds of tenderest pinks, mauves and pale yellows, 
blending with and melting into each other. The name “ Sunrise” is 
already appropriated. But I cannot but think that its Godparents missed 
an opportunity when they failed to name this hybrid ‘‘ Dawn.” 
The plant throve with me, putting forth two bulbs in the year and 
flowering upon each. Then it grew only once in the twelve months, and 
the bulb was larger, but the flower was altogether different in colour. The 
sepals and petals were of a pale blush, while the lip was pale yellow, rather 
the colours of C. Harrisoniz. 
When next it started into growth I.cut the rhizome behind the third 
bulb, with the result that the leading bulb is smaller, and the flowers went 
back to the original colouring, which, but that its hues are of a dead colour 
and show no light in them, I should be inclined to term opalescent. From 
the severed portion I have three small bulbs, one of which threw up 4 
sheath and bud, which I pinched off. 
The change in the colouring of the flower is coincident with the larger 
bulb. This might be nothing of import: or signifi but when with 
a smaller bulb it returns to the original colouring, one cannot fail to 
Tecognise strong grounds for the application of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc, 
argument and for considering that the type, gua colouring, of the bloom 15 — 
dependent upon the strength of the bulb. Assuming that to be the cases 
as the original colouring is infinitely more beautiful than when the colouts — 
were distinctly separated, one must be careful not to get one’s plant too 
vigorous, a contingency against which, as a rule,the orchidist has no reason ~ 
to guard himself or his plants. a 
I should like to point out that had I sold the plant in sheath, when it 
was making up its strong bulb, from a painting or description, I think that 
the purchaser, when it flowered with him, would have been quite justified 
in making some strong remarks as to my bona fides, although I should have 
been most innocent. 
] Joun Epwarps-Moss. 
Thamesfield, 
Henley-on-Thames, 
